Re: Powersaving Patch for NetworkManager

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 13:38 +0100, Jan Kantert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> according to powertop Network Manager wakes up my cpu about once every
> two seconds. Thats does not sound much but on an idle desktop with 10
> wake ups per seconds thats 5%. I wanted my laptop's cpu to stay longer
> in sleepstates so I wrote a little patch (against trunk) to replace
> g_timeout_add with g_timeout_add_seconds (where possible), which uses
> more rough granularity. This helps to aggregate timeouts and will
> statistically wake up the cpu less frequently.

Good thing to do, but you'll need to check the glib version being used,
and if it's not >= 2.14, re-implement g_timeout_add_seconds() in
NetworkManagerUtils.c, which should simply call g_timeout_add or
whatever.  Care to respin?

Thanks!
Dan

> 
> Greetings,
> Jan Kantert
> 
> 
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